AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
REVIEW:
I really wanted to like this book. I was looking forward to it since I really enjoyed Hidden Pictures but this one missed the mark for me. Maybe it was the narration since this was an audiobook and I read the last one in Hardcover but I found the main character to be too naive and pathetic to have been a single dad who worked a blue collar job his whole life. It just came across as very unrealistic to me.
The daughter was off from the beginning but I wasn't sure what was up, her soon to be husband seemed entirely disinterested in the whole affair. The mother of the groom was completely absent until the end and the grooms father was your typical out of touch rich guy. The events leading up to the wedding left a bad taste in my mouth and I felt myself wanting to shake the characters - I actually could think of several more realistic endings to this book than the one that was chosen which just fell flat. The only person in the entire book I liked was the foster daughter who wasn't invited to the wedding but wound up there anyway.
I know others loved this book but it just wasn't for me. Maybe you will have better luck with it.
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Publisher: Macmillan Audio
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He arrives to find that the wedding is at a private estate—very secluded, very luxurious, very much out of his league. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she’s marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it’s difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn’t seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Frank needs to know more about this family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever.
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